"Tinkering is what happens when you try to do something you don't quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination and curiosity. When you tinker there are no instructions - but there are also no failures, no right or wrong ways of doing things. It's about figuring out how things work and reworking them."
Tinkering
"Tinkering is what happens when you try to do something you don't quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination and curiosity. When you tinker there are no instructions - but there are also no failures, no right or wrong ways of doing things. It's about figuring out how things work and reworking them."
http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/about/
Tools for Tinkering
Below are listed some of the tools that children can use to actually build and program
Arduino
Raspberry Pi
Little Bits
Lego MindStorms
.Net Gadgeteer